I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
~By Billie Holiday ~
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~By Norah Jones ~
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
~By Jimmy Webb ~
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
~By Chris Brown ~
This nation loves singing and loves acting.
~By Kate Smith ~
My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
~By P. J. Harvey ~
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
~By Jim Dale ~
I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
~By Jody Watley ~
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
~By Jon Secada ~
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
~By Rosemary Clooney ~
I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
~By Layne Staley ~
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
~By Linda Lavin ~
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
~By Gary Cole ~
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.
~By Donna Douglas ~
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
~By Alan Jackson ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
~By Janine Turner ~
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
~By Don Henley ~
They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.
~By Frankie Avalon ~
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
The singing was something I got from my father.
~By Woody Herman ~
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.
~By Debra Wilson ~
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
~By Minnie Driver ~
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
~By Sebastian Bach ~
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
~By Emily Rossum ~
After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.
~By Josh Groban ~
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
~By Compay Segundo ~
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
~By Bertrand Russell ~
One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
~By Mark Roberts ~
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.
~By Roy Haynes ~
Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
~By Al Jarreau ~
I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.
~By Pia Toscano ~
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
~By Lonnie Donegan ~
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
~By Justin Bieber ~
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
~By Elvis Costello ~
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
~By Dan Hicks ~
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
~By Alain Resnais ~
And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!
~By David Gest ~
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
~By James Stephens ~
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!
~By Louise Nurding ~
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
~By Little Richard ~
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
~By Muddy Waters ~
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
~By Charlotte Church ~
In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
~By Petula Clark ~
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
When I was singing, everybody liked me.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.
~By Craig Ferguson ~
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
~By Robin Trower ~
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
~By LaToya London ~
I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
~By Walter Legge ~
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.
~By Graham Norton ~
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
~By Margot Kidder ~
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~By Franz Liszt ~
I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
~By Hilary Duff ~
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
~By Bobby Darin ~
I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.
~By Susan Boyle ~
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
~By Patti Page ~
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.
~By Arthur Freed ~
I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.
~By William Hung ~
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
~By Kate Smith ~
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.
~By Alison Moyet ~
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
~By Cab Calloway ~
I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.
~By Shawn Colvin ~
My heart is like a singing bird.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
~By Brian McKnight ~
I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
~By Rod Stewart ~
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